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[Is rheumatoid arthritis without anti-citrullinated peptide antibody a genetically distinct subset?].
Nihon Rinsho Men'eki Gakkai kaishi = Japanese journal of clinical immunology - 1 Dec 2009
Ohmura Koichiro
Abstract excerpt
These days, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is reported to be subclassified into two subsets by anti-citrullinated peptide antibody (ACPA) positivity. Clinically, ACPA positive RA tends to develop more severe arthritis than ACPA negative RA. In addition, a lot of reported susceptibility genes to RA (ie. HLA-DRB1(*)04, PTPN22, TRAF1/C5, CTLA4) are found to be associated only with ACPA positive RA but not with ACPA...
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